by Paul Messersmith-Glavin | Aug 13, 2026 | Anarchism, antifa, Community Defense, Criminalization, Donald Trump, ICE, immigration, Interview, Minnesota, NSPM-7, Operation Metro Surge, Organizing, Repression
The U.S. government is attempting to use conspiracy charges to imprison organizers, just as it did in its war against the Black Panther Party, New Left, and other 1960s and ‘70s radicals through its counterintelligence program, COINTELPRO. Through this method, the Trump regime shares the goal of the Nixon administration of disrupting and attempting to destroy domestic opposition to its…
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by Michael Arria | Jul 31, 2026 | Activism, Criminalization, extradition, News, NSPM-7, Palestine, palestine solidarity, Prairieland, Spain, Trump Administration
On July 10, activist James “Fergie” Chambers was arrested in Ibiza, Spain after the Trump administration requested his extradition. Chambers, an heir to the Cox Communications family fortune, has used his vast inheritance to fund pro-Palestine organizations for years. The indictment accuses him of “international money laundering… with the intent to provide material support to and resources to…
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by Sharon Zhang | Jul 27, 2026 | Cop City, Criminalization, Department of Justice, News, NSPM-7, Technology
The Department of Justice is trying to prosecute a man allegedly involved in the movement against Atlanta’s Cop City for using a “duress” password on his smartphone that reportedly wiped its contents, in a seemingly unprecedented line of prosecution as the Trump administration expands its methods of criminalizing those with left-wing beliefs. According to The Guardian, the defendant…
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by Chip Gibbons | Jul 24, 2026 | Cold War, counterterrorism, Criminalization, cuba, Donald Trump, FBI, J. Edgar Hoover, Marco Rubio, McCarthyism, News Analysis, NSPM-7, Stephen Miller, Surveillance, Trump Administration, War On Terror
The Trump administration’s drive to turn the machinery of counterterrorism against left-wing movements worldwide kicked into a higher gear this month surrounding its convening of an international “Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism.” On July 16, 2026, Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau stood before representatives of over 60 nations assembled for the global summit…
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by Sharon Zhang | Jul 23, 2026 | Criminalization, Fascism, free speech, House Ways and Means Committee, Marco Rubio, McCarthyism, News, Republicans
Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee have issued subpoenas to three left-wing groups, including a news outlet, demanding that they turn over their communications and financial records as the Trump administration escalates its McCarthyist crackdowns on those with left-wing views. The committee has demanded documents from BreakThrough News, a left-wing news outlet…
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by Sharon Zhang | Jul 21, 2026 | Cold War, Criminalization, cuba, Donald Trump, Fascism, Marco Rubio, News, Red Scare, State Department
The State Department has released a report that labels Cuba as the “ideological capital” of left-wing politics in a document seemingly imitating Cold War politics published amid the Trump administration’s fascistic crackdown on the left. The 99-page report is entitled “Cuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism.” It argues that, since the rise of Fidel Castro and left-wing revolutionary…
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